On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> > ELKS machine. The ELKS machine would be a truely dumb X Terminal--not
> > keeping any fonts, window parameters, etc, in memory at all. Display only
> > what it's given over the network.
Something like that would be excellent. I'd love to be able to use it.
> I've been wondering about this also. Any x terminal has limits on how
> many resources it can handle, so what is the minimum amount that is required?
> If an x command references a resource which has been dropped can't it just
> re-request it? So in the limit couldn't it re-request it every time it
> needs it?
How about using W or MGR as starting point? Perhaps X is to beg, but a
different graphic system would do. I've been running W on top of my Linux
box and seems very cool. It's also running on top of a tiny distribution
of BSD (PicoBSD) run from a single floppy (1.44MB). I think it woulb be
really cool to port them (W and MGR) to ELKS.
> I can figure out how to boot Linux and run SVNC in 2 megs. :-) I'm also
> thinking of doing an OS-less version of VNC, in which case a small TCP/IP
Another great alternative. Long ago I tried out a telnet client OS-less. I
could use a 286 as a text terminal. It would be great having a boot floppy
with only SVNCViewer on it... :)))
Angel
PS. Links to the sites of W, MGR and PicoBSD can be found in my web page
at http://www.ugr.es/~ama/ under the Interesting Computer Projects
section.
